Amsterdam, Netherlands: Wereldbibliotheek, 1952. Hardcover without dust jacket, 36 pages of text including several illustrations (plus photographs of the artists), plus 104 illustrations, plus Erratum slip laid in;--- text in Dutch;---cream-coloured linen covers with gilt lettering on front cover still bright and clear (title only in gilt on spine less bright), traces of foxing to front cover, more so to spine which is also age darkened, foxing and dust speckling to top edge, there is foxing to the page edges and the endpapers, but overall very gently used, hardly a trace of shelf wear, previous owner's professionally designed (by owner, Dutch-Canadian silhouette artist and graphic designer Hans-Detlev Voss who still lived and worked in The Netherlands during the 1930s/1940s) bookplate inside front cover, his usual tiny ink numeral inside back cover, text and illustration pages very clean and unmarked, fresh and white. See also our listing for van der Boom's Hedendaagse Prentkunst in Nederland in identical size and format (buy both and save on postage!), or check all of our Dutch language books by using the Keywords "text in Dutch". . Hard Cover. Very Good.

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Bookseller: Eric James (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 042739
Title: Acht Vlaamse en Nederlandse Houtgraveurs
Author: Dr. A. van der Boom
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Publisher: Wereldbibliotheek
Place of Publication: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date Published: 1952
Keywords: Dutch Art Illustration Ephemera Holland Netherlands Drawings Engravings Graphic Design
Bookseller catalogs: Art; Rare Books;

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Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...